Installation for a nuclear power station with staggered swimming pools
In an installation for a nuclear power station comprising a ''reactor building'' with a first swimming pool for handling of fuel units and a fuel building with a second swimming pool for the transfer, storage and deactivation of the units, the second swimming pool is located at a lower level than that of the first and is connected to the first by an intermediate auxiliary chamber filled with water and located under the first swimming pool. The auxiliary chamber is connected by a vertical pipeline to the first swimming pool and by a horizontal connecting pipeline to the second swimming pool. Each of the pipelines is provided with a shut-off valve, with interlocking means which prevents the simultaneous opening of the two valves. There is negligible dead space around a conveyor basket for fuel units when it is in the vertical or horizontal pipelines.
- Assignee:
- Framatome (France)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4366113
- OSTI ID:
- 6535474
- Resource Relation:
- Patent Priority Date: Priority date 4 Oct 1977, France; Other Information: PAT-APPL-199109
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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FUEL POOLS
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
FUEL ASSEMBLIES
FUEL ELEMENTS
REMOTE HANDLING EQUIPMENT
VALVES
EQUIPMENT
FLOW REGULATORS
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
POWER PLANTS
REACTOR COMPONENTS
STORAGE
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
210000* - Nuclear Power Plants